Home › Words › R › recommencerecommencerecommence means to begin again.EtymologyFrom Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier, equivalent to re- + commence.verbTo begin again.e.g.“The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.” — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).